Previous ventures include The Liberty Electric Cars Group of companies where Barry was Founder and CEO.

Barry is a serial entrepreneur with a successful track record in launching new businesses that solve commercial needs with leading-edge innovations. His latest venture is "The Health-Tech Innovation LABS", an innovative, unique London-based business incubator and Accelerator with an exclusive focus on accelerating innovation in healthcare technology.

About Barry

Barry Shrier is a well educated and charismatic Leader, with a proven Board-level general management track record demonstrating entrepreneurial courage, ambitious salesmanship, and passionate marketing flair. He is IT literate, with a robust love of the digital revolution.

Barry has founded and managed four businesses, and a Deutsche Bank subsidiary, and brings substantial experience including full profit responsibility, cost control & credit management, budgeting and forecasting, personnel management and motivation, managing investor relations, negotiation, etc.

Barry Shrier was the founder and CEO, then Chairman of The Liberty Electric Cars group of companies. He designed, built and launched the world's first zero-emission high performance SUV; and grew Liberty into a multi-million business with global blue-chip customers including UPS, Lockheed Martin, Tescos, FedEx, McLaren and the British Government. In June 2012 he sold it to GACR, stock market valuation in excess of $100M, resulting in the founding investors earning over 90% compound annual growth.

Barry also founded The Electric Automobile Association (EAA), bringing together zero emission technology suppliers, manufacturers and others to facilitate networking and the exchange of ideas. He has also served as a Director of the Washington DC-based satellite venture LeoTerra, to launch a new constellation of low earth orbit satellites.

In 2001, Barry was hired by Deutsche Bank to launch Paybox, the world's first international mobile payment system. Barry was Managing Director for the UK and European spokesman for Paybox and a leading speaker on mobile commerce.

Barry has an MSc in Philosophy from the London School of Economics, and a BA in Politics from Middlebury College, Vermont, USA.

Barry Shrier is a visionary business pioneer; a popular and charismatic public speaker, and has lectured to MBA level. He has given highly rated speeches at international trade congresses and academic institutions – where delegates have voted him as Best Speaker. With extensive media training from The BBC and The Economist, he has appeared on Sky Television, BBC Television and Radio, The Financial Times and numerous publications around the world.

“Barry is one of those rare speakers who can present his case in an inspiring way that can reach both the young who wants to save the planet and the seasoned financier. Barry was instrumental to the success of our panel debate.”Mauro Tortone, CISI Corporate Finance Forum Committee

Notes for Conference Producers

Barry Shrier often works with conference organisers to develop his Chairmanship role and / or his presentation to meet the particular needs of the event delegates. The result is to maximize the quality of the event with the best Chairman’s leadership, and to produce and deliver the most informative, entertaining, and memorable presentation.